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By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne |
May 22, 2012
The RIA Group at iShares has seen phenomenal growth, to 100 boutique managers totaling $46 billion in ETF assets this year versus only a few managers with $5.8 billion in assets in 2009.
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By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne |
May 21, 2012
“As long as I have my iPad with me, there’s nothing I can’t access. I can run into a client in a restaurant and do things on the fly,” says Ted Rich of Vinoy Capital.
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By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne |
May 3, 2012
“You don’t get a radically different answer when you change the wording of a question about whether you want chocolate or vanilla ice cream, but with annuities you do,” says Harvard professor David Laibson.
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By John Sullivan, Advisorone |
February 8, 2012
BlackRock's Larry Fink told Bloomberg Television from Hong Kong that investors should have 100% of investments in equities due to low valuations and higher returns than bonds.
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By Marlene Y. Satter |
January 27, 2012
New products over the last week include a new ETF focusing on German debt from ProShares and a reintroduced multi-asset income fund from BlackRock.
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By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne |
November 17, 2011
Synthetic ETFs were the target on Wednesday of Laurence D. Fink, CEO of BlackRock, as he criticized the products of Société Générale SA, saying that he didn’t want them to damage the industry.
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By John Sullivan, Advisorone |
August 29, 2011
BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager, filed an application with the SEC for its iShares exchange-traded funds to follow its own indexes rather than those developed by third parties such as Standard & Poor’s.
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By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne |
August 11, 2011
BlackRock's head of defined contribution plans, Chip Castille, says the firm's launch of 10 new index funds comes in response to a growing trend toward index funds for DC plans.
